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baghdad_bush Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:35 PM
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Why are people bitching about the cost of gasoline?
Just the other day I got onto Interstate 80 and set my cruise control at 55mph (speed limit was 75mph) and guess who was the slowest vehicle on the freeway?

Me...

Even the huge semi's were doing 60-65+mph..

Alot of people passed me and gave strange looks like I was some sort of nut...

But everyday they continue to bitch, bitch, bitch...

SCREW THEM!!!
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:36 PM
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1. I think I was the guy behind you honking for you to move over
:rofl:
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:37 PM
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2. because it's one of the few items whose price is posted in big print everywhere. nt
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:41 PM
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3. I'm with ya my friend
I get on I-10 and I-59, hang out in the right lane and set the cruise on 60 and everybody is zooming by me. Maybe my choice is driven by age. I am 54. But this morning at a stop light (two lanes each way) with another stop light about a block away this young lad flew down to the next red light when our light turned green and stopped abruptly. No wonder there is free DNA testing in Mississippi.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:59 PM
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7. I'm doing more hypermiling where I can.
And the type of driving you describe just amazes me.
Hauling ass up to a stoplight so you can sit there and idle longer.
:eyes:
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:53 PM
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4. You are an arrogant danger to everyone else on the road.
At the very least you can be charged with obstruction of traffic.

Go with the flow. Speed doesn't kill, speed differance does.
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baghdad_bush Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:58 PM
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6. It was a three lane freeway with hardly any traffic.
I was all by myself...no obstruction what so ever...
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:03 PM
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9. Ridiculous
first: obstruction of traffic requires having more than three cars behind you where they have no option to get around and going well below reasonable speeds.

second: they can go around slower cars.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:45 PM
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14. Isn't it true that there are also minimum speeds for interstate
highways? If one is traveling between the minimum and maximum, how is that obstructing traffic?
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:46 PM
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15. 55 is a legal speed. You are the arrogant one.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 05:25 PM
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21. Not when the speed limit is posted @ 75.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 08:26 PM
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24. Post 14. There is a minimum also. If one is above that minimum
then one is legal. I believe if you then ram that person (who is driving at or above the posted minimum) in the rear, then you have failed to maintain control of your vehicle.
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 03:55 PM
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5. Same here, it's a much more relaxing speed as well.
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:55 PM
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17. I Wouldn't Exactly Call That "Speed"

I find 55 mph frustrating and annoying, not relaxing.

The interstates and most cars are designed to go much faster.

Now people who are having a really hard time making ends meet with the hyperinflation have to reduce their speed to squeeze out a few more miles per gallon.

I understand that.

And Congress should act to bring all consumers, especially those making low wages, some meaningful relief from the oil company tycoons and market speculators.

Will they act?
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 05:27 PM
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22. Then you don't relax when you drive. I don't do it to get a couple more miles out of a gallon

I drove that on the interstates when it was $1.25 a gallon.
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:02 PM
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8. Let Me Guess: Because We Are Being Ripped-Off?
by the oil speculators and big oil companies?
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kaybea Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:04 PM
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10. maybe because some of us are staring down the barrel of 4.50+ home heating oil bills and we're just
honing our freak out? I know I am.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:06 PM
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11. The slower drivers are sometimes worse
on the highway.

That theory, of slowing down in order to save on gas, works depending on what kind of car you have and how many miles you drive.

I drive too much to have that really decrease my gas bills.
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:07 PM
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12. People Gave You Strange Looks? Can't Imagine Why!
Edited on Thu Jul-31-08 04:48 PM by Better Believe It
"A lot of people passed me and gave strange looks like I was some sort of nut..."

Ya don't say!

I might have been one of them!

:) :)
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:25 PM
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13. personal experience ...
65+mph speed - 28 mpg max

<=55mph - 33 mpg average (just went 36)

IN AN 2007 AMERICAN BUILT SMALL CAR!

Of course, I'm being passed by SUVs, Porsches, other small cars, big trucks, etc.

I noted years ago (when I got an Escort station wagon, instead of a pickup truck), that there were plenty of people more than happy to spend big bucks on cars - opposed to the mantra that "American car buyers" wouldn't get small cars and American car companies couldn't make money on smaller, more fuel efficient cars ...
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 04:53 PM
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16. If you were in the right lane (the left one being the fast lane, of course) then nobody should have
honked.

'Speed limit' is the maximum speed; there is usually a lower legal limit (often 40MPH)

You did no wrong.
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ileus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 05:01 PM
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18. I hate it when old people won't drive the speed limit also.
@55 you're the slowest car in the parking lot, much less an Interstate where people pick the road because it's quicker.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 05:03 PM
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19. That is a nutty thing to do
It is really dangerous when people don't travel at a speed at least within 10 MPH of the speed limit.
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baghdad_bush Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 05:15 PM
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20. The posted speed limit for trucks with trailers is 55mph
which is 20mph slower than the top speed limit in California.

On a very busy 3-day holiday freeway you never want to be that slow...
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-31-08 05:28 PM
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23. Because my food costs are skyrocketing & my income dropping since everyone is cutting back
That is why I am complaining. Oh yes, because Exxon has had record profits recently. That too.
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